As we reported, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while passing through Azerbaijan’s airspace, congratulated President Ilham Aliyev and our people.
Globalinfo.az reports that a head of state being congratulated in precisely this form — while in the airspace — is said to be the first during Erdoğan’s time in power.
However, the Turkish president had used an aircraft’s radio while in Azerbaijan’s skies before. On 26 April 2016, Erdoğan, flying from Azerbaijan to Croatia, entered the cockpit and congratulated pilots by radio on World Pilots’ Day.
But there is a small difference between that episode and the current message: in 2016 Erdoğan addressed the pilots directly by radio, whereas this time the pilot conveyed, on his behalf, his congratulations to President Ilham Aliyev and the Azerbaijani people on the occasion of Victory Day.
Aliyar Khalil
Globalinfo.az
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